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...dual bottom line was the challenge for Lisa Schorr when she signed on with Pine Street Inn as director of business-enterprise development. PSI, New England's largest nonprofit for the homeless, provides shelters and services for 11,000 people a day, many of them considered hard-core unemployable. A program that offered job training and supplied used clothing to the homeless had inadequate funding. Schorr, who had just received her M.B.A. from Harvard, came up with a plan to expand PSI's work and make it financially self-sufficient. "The idea," she says, "was to kill two birds with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Better At Doing Good | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...Once the machines are brought online, hopefully in the next two weeks, users should notice a speed increase on interactive login sessions (such as Pine), as well as speed in accessing POP mail with programs such as Eudora," Osterberg says, referring to two commonly-used e-mail programs...

Author: By Christopher J. Yip, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Faster Access, Roaming Ethernet Slated in Harvard's Technology Blueprint | 2/9/2000 | See Source »

...grew up in LaPorte, Ind., and attended Western Kentucky University before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1975. He and his wife, whom he met during his Army stint in Germany, started their wholesale bath-supplies business in 1994 out of the family garage in Summerville, S.C., a pine tree-studded bedroom community of Charleston. "We began very meagerly," says Reinert. "We didn't have one account." By knocking on doors, attending an endless parade of trade shows and selecting the right representatives, they built a solid customer base of some 2,000 stores--gift shops, beauty salons, boutiques, grocery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Become a Top Banana | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...hair in a thinning ponytail copied originally from the traditional-style long hair of the leaders of the American Indian Movement of the 1970s because I thought it looked cool." Lance's brother teasingly calls Frazier a "wannabe" Indian, and the author doesn't protest much. "Walking on Pine Ridge, I feel as if I am in actual America, the original version that was here before and will still be here after we're gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Looking for Lost America | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...Frazier serendipitously shuttles his narrative between Pine Ridge visits and snippets of Indian history, a fascinating picture emerges of a people struggling with the consequences of old wrongs and human orneriness. He remains alert to signs of hope and finds one in the story of the late SuAnne Big Crow, a high-school basketball star whose exploits and character united the reservation in pride. Like her ancestors, Big Crow lives on in legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Looking for Lost America | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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